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Allow plugin url in .tool-versions

Open tigerquoll opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

If a asdf plugin is broken due to a changed tool URL, while a fix PR is pending on the original archive I often fork and fix the issue in my own issue. While using my own fixed asdf plugin, I have to manually install this plugin, which is awkward for my CI system.

Describe the proposed solution

I would like to see the option of specifying a plugin URL in the .tool-versions file that can be used to override the URL of a particular plugin in the plugin repository. An "adsf plugin-add " command should check for this value in preference to the default repo value

Describe similar asdf features and why they are not sufficient

Manually scripting a asdf plugin add, which is a different workflow when adding a default asdf plugin

Describe other workarounds you've considered

Manually specifying every plugin URL rather then take advantage of the URLs in the

tigerquoll avatar May 29 '23 01:05 tigerquoll

Are there any plan to implement this?

nurulhudaapon avatar Jul 15 '24 09:07 nurulhudaapon

I would imagine this would be solved while solving https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf/issues/166

Which is something we want to tackle, but a very breaking change, and one we haven't got to yet.

jthegedus avatar Oct 07 '24 15:10 jthegedus